Doing all we can to promote our friend’s happiness is better than to continually drink to his prosperity.
Minna Antrim (1861–1950) American epigrammatist, writer
Naked Truth and Veiled Allusions (1902)
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Quotations about:
wishes
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Like our shadows,
Our wishes lengthen, as our sun declines.Edward Young (1683–1765) English poet
Poem (1743-12), “Night the 5th: The Relapse,” ll. 661-662, The Complaint: Or, Night Thoughts, Vol. 1 (1744)
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Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be.
Clementine Paddleford (1898–1967) American food writer
A Flower for My Mother (1958)
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Quoting her mother.
You are right in assuming that I am indifferent to the pattern of things. I am. I have never liked stale phrases and bodyless courage. I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.
Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960) American writer, folklorist, anthropologist
Letter to Countee Cullen (5 Mar 1943)
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After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure. You know, the Stone was really not such a wonderful thing. As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all — the trouble is, humans do have a knack for choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.
Joanne "Jo" Rowling (b. 1965) British novelist [writes as J. K. Rowling and Robert Galbraith]
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, ch. 17 [Dumbledore] (1997)
Yes! ready money is Aladdin’s lamp.
